RStudio Does Not Start

Posted on May 26, 2012 in Software • Tagged with IDE, R, statistics, software, configuration, RStudio, CRAN

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Rstudio is the best cross-platform IDE for R so far. It is a lot like the IDE of MATLAB. Once I came across the problem that Rstudio …


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Compare R with Other Languages on Data Manipulation

Posted on May 13, 2012 in Computer Science • Tagged with Python, C++, programming, statistics, Java, string, data frame, R, OOP, MATLAB, CRAN

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Here I compare R with other languages such as C/C++, Java, MATLAB, Python and so on data manipulation. I list a few advantages and disadvantages of …


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Distributions in R

Posted on Nov 05, 2012 in Computer Science • Tagged with distribution, R, programming, statistics

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  1. The definition of geometric distribution in R is not the same as the common definition. A random variable of geometric distribution in R starts from zero, i …


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MATLAB for Statisticians

Posted on Dec 04, 2012 in Computer Science • Tagged with statistics, programming, MATLAB

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  1. There are generally two ways to generate uniform and normal random numbers in MATLAB. One ways is to use [functions] randn (for standard normal distribution) and rand …


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